2005 Minnesota Statutes - 181.87 — Payment terms.

181.87 Payment terms.
Subdivision 1. Entitled to payment. Each migrant
worker who is recruited by an employer is entitled to payment in
accordance with this section.
Subd. 2. Biweekly pay. The employer shall pay wages
due to the migrant worker at least every two weeks, except on
termination, when the employer shall pay within three days.
Subd. 3. Guaranteed hours. The employer shall
guarantee to each recruited migrant worker a minimum of 70 hours
pay for work in any two successive weeks and, should the pay for
hours actually offered by the employer and worked by the migrant
worker provide a sum of pay less than the minimum guarantee, the
employer shall pay the migrant worker the difference within
three days after the scheduled payday for the pay period
involved. Payment for the guaranteed hours shall be at the
hourly wage rate, if any, specified in the employment statement,
or the federal minimum wage, whichever is higher. Any pay in
addition to the hourly wage rate specified in the employment
statement shall be applied against the guarantee. This
guarantee applies for the minimum period of employment specified
in the employment statement beginning with the date on which
employment is to begin as specified in the employment statement.
The date on which employment is to begin may be changed by the
employer by written, telephonic, or telegraphic notice to the
migrant worker, at the worker's last known address, no later
than ten days prior to the previously stated beginning date.
The migrant worker shall contact the recruiter to obtain the
latest information regarding the date upon which employment is
to begin no later than five days prior to the previously stated
beginning date. This guarantee shall be reduced, when there is
no work available for a period of seven or more consecutive days
during any two week period subsequent to the commencement of
work, by five hours pay for each such day, when the
unavailability of work is caused by climatic conditions or an
act of God, provided that the employer pays the migrant worker,
on the normal payday, the sum of $5 for each such day.
Subd. 4. Worker fired or quits. If the migrant
worker quits or is fired for cause prior to the completion of
the operation for which hired, the migrant worker is entitled to
no further guarantee under subdivision 3 from that employer. If
the migrant worker quits or is fired for cause before the
completion of a two-week pay period, the worker is entitled to
no guarantee for that period.
Subd. 5. Housing vacated. The employer may require
the migrant worker to vacate the provided housing on final
payment of all wages.
Subd. 6. Refusal to work; illness. If on any day for
which work is offered the migrant worker refuses or because of
illness or disability is unable to perform work which is
offered, the employer may reduce the guarantee available in the
pay period by the number of hours of work actually offered by
the employer that day.
Subd. 7. Statement itemizing deductions from wages.
The employer shall provide a written statement at the time wages
are paid clearly itemizing each deduction from wages.
HIST: 1981 c 212 s 3; 1986 c 444

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